A Day In The Life of Me

Happy June everyone! I thought a great way to kick off the month would be to post a typical day around my house. So.....enjoy the first day of June!

5:45 AWAKE! Feed dogs, cat, and clean litter box. Wake husband for work. Make him breakfast and pack his lunch.

6:00 Unload dishwasher.....load dishwasher (I take Sundays off of any kitchen chores, so Monday there are lots of dishes to do.) Make sure husband takes his morning meds, and has his afternoon meds with him.

6:10 Chase dog outside to keep him from eating the frogs in our garden. (The last time he got one he threw up in the house. I try to avoid that from happening!)

6:20 Start a load of dark clothes in the washer.

6:30 Update Netflix Queue to make sure there will be movies in the mail this week. Wipe off white board and write June dates on it. Clean husbands desk.

7:00 My son is up and asking for breakfast! Time to cut up some fruit for a nice fruit salad with some yogurt.

7:15 Vacuum master bedroom, and ceiling fan. Dust TV and shelf. Change sheets and blanket.

7:35 Start a load of towels in the wash. Eat breakfast and catch up on my favorite blogs.

8:00 Fold and hang dark clothes that just finished drying. Feed sour dough starter and place in fridge.

8:15 Take out recycle and trash.

8:20 Make beds, and get crib ready for God daughter. ( to save space, I put all of her things in the crib when she is not here. )

8:30 Straighten kitchen

8:40 Go next door and get God daughter.

8:50 Put towels in washer

8:55 Get sons school books ready for teaching

9:00 Start school with son. Start with Reading book. Fed baby, rocked her to sleep.

9:30 changed a VERY smelly diaper and took it straight outside to the trash can.

9:35 Rocked baby back to sleep while helping son with reading questions.

9:45 Folded towels from the dryer. Put them away in the closet.

9:50 Had a snack ( a whole wheat apple muffin I baked Sunday before church). All this work is making me hungry!

10:00 Mix a bottle up so it will be ready when the baby wakes up.

10:05 Continue to help son with reading. We are reading 4 short stories in his book today.

10:10 Started a load of sheets and blankets in the wash.

10:15 Spoke to father in law on the phone

10:30 Baby crying...have to change her diaper and warm a bottle

10:40 Feed baby and rock her.

11:00 Put sheets in the dryer.

11:10 Put baby in Snuggli and walked around the house with her. We walked in the backyard, and went to check the mail.

11:30 Catch my son goofing off, so I added an extra page to his school work.

11:45 Rock baby back to sleep

11:55 Make lunch for my son and I ( a fresh hand cut salad for me, and a PB&J sandwich for my son)
12:15 Baby crying, rock her to sleep again - Eat lunch while she is asleep in my lap.

12:45 Update this page!

1:00 Get son started on Language Arts book.

1:10 Baby hungry....feed her again and rock her to sleep. Continue to help son with Language Arts lessons.

1:50 Baby finally sound asleep. Give my son a break from his lessons and try to fix the sound on computer.

2:00 No luck on the sound to the computer! Make another bottle for later.

2:05 Unload second set of dishes from dishwasher.

2:15 Rocked baby and sat her in bouncer so she can watch a movie with son (while I take a 5 minute break!!)

2:25 Rinse off dishes in the sink


2:30 Baby crying again.....warm up bottle and feed her.


2:50 Baby is finally asleep again! Fold sheets in dryer.


3:10 Baby up.....I am having a long day!


3:20 to 4:00 It all went by kinda of fast, but this is what I think happened! Husband comes home, phone rings, baby is crying, husband tries to talk to me while baby is crying, try to rock baby, babies mommy comes home and needs to use computer, baby finally falls asleep in my arms!


4:20 Baby wakes up and I take her home.


4:30 Can I go to bed now? NO! I need to call and see if my husbands prescription has been filled at Target. Keep in mind that I have not had any caffeine today. I am running on empty and could fall asleep at any moment! Oh...I also sat down to update this post.


4:50 Start dinner - whole wheat spaghetti with garlic and herb sauce


5:15 Dinner served


5:35 Check emails


5:50 Clean up dinner dishes, load dishwasher, wipe down counters, put dirty kitchen towels in basket.


6:20 Talk to neighbor about scrubbies I sell on Etsy


6:40 Take a long hot well deserved shower


6:55 Make some decaf tea


7:00 Send son to take a shower, get husbands evening medicine ready for him in case I fall asleep.


7:05 Log into Library and renew books that are due this week


7:10 Pop some popcorn for desert


7:15 Update this post, then I am going to go lay down and watch a movie I got from Netflix today.

Goodnight everyone. I finally finished 'work' today! I put in a good 13 1/2 hours. And it all starts again tomorrow!